The Crazy Life Hack I Learned from Vogue Magazine

Never leave the house without doing this one thing!

Roz Warren, Writing Coach
Boomers, Bitches, and Babes
3 min readSep 2, 2024

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I’ve always loved magazines, and I’ve always read lots of them. Although I love them, a lot of their advice about life just doesn’t apply to me.

You Call This Advice?

For instance? When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I read an article in Glamour about how celebrities stay in shape. Illustrated, of course, with scads of photos of beautiful people with terrific bodies.

Cool, I thought. I’d love to learn how to look as fit as Farrah Fawcett.

There were fitness tips from 50 celebrities. Some confided that they hit the gym every day. A few played tennis. Some worked with personal trainers. But here’s what most of them answered when asked how they stayed so fit:

I run on the beach in Malibu!

I kid you not. So many celebrities said this that I immediately conjured up a mental image of a Malibu beach packed with sprinting superstars. Cher! Barbra Streisand! Ali McGraw! All running down the beach together.

The point is that I was reading this article in Detroit.

In the winter.

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Roz Warren, Writing Coach
Boomers, Bitches, and Babes

Writing Coach Roz Warren (roSwarren@gmail.com) helps Medium writers craft better, more boost-able stories. Roz used to write for the New York Times.